AlphaDog Proto When AlphaDog Proto came onto the scene in 2011, Boston Dynamics’ military aspirations became ever more transparent. Thanks to funding from DARPA and the Untied States Marine Corps, AlphaDog Proto was capable of varying a 400-pound payload during a 20-mile mission through varied...
Boston Dynamics has its roots in military funding. While the robot maker has repeatedly attempted to distance itself from its roots and promote itself as a company that sells dancing robots that can do gymnastics, we've already seen its robotic offspring being used to intimidate by institutions ...
Boston Dynamics is a cutting-edge robotics company that's spent decades behind closed doors making robots that move in ways we've only seen in science fiction films. They occasionally release videos on YouTube of their life-like machines spinning, somersaulting or sprinting, which are greeted wi...
This giraffe-like creature is the SpotMini, a compact robot that can navigate its way around a house like an actual dog. SpotMini is completely electric, and can operate for about 90 minutes on a single charge. It's pretty quiet for a Boston Dynamics robot, which means it cou...
Boston Dynamics has released a prototype of an all-terrain robot, BigDog. The quadruped robot is equipped with a computer featuring sensors that aid its movements over harsh terrain. The robot is powered by a gasoline engine that drives the hydraulic sys
almost anywhere.Our mission at Boston Dynamics is to develop a new breed of roughterrainrobots that capture the mobility, autonomy and speed of living creatures.In this talk, the authors deliver a status report on two humanoid and two quadrupedrobots currently under development at Boston Dynamics....
The robot stands at about 2.5 feet tall and can carry loads of up to 340 lbs, making it a perfect pack mule for military missions. Like most Boston Dynamics robots, BigDog is equipped with all sorts of sensors that allow it to move and balance. It moves at a comparatively ...
Reminds of the DARPA Wait, What Conference in St Louis way back, where Boston Dynamics had a demo of all their robots. While watching, the Robot Dog came around and sat right in front and scanned me, very spooky!! BTW think this Robot is done with electro-mechanical methods, the earlier...
Boston Dynamics is retiring Atlas, its humanoid robot known for its dance moves and backflips, more than a decade after its launch.
From the makers ofBig DogandAlpha Dog, Boston Dynamics has introduced an update to its humanoid robot PETMAN. In the latest video, PETMAN can walk, twist, and raise its arms as if it’s a human under that camo suit pretending to be a robot. ...